Pulverizer.



PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903. H. ARIENS, J. THOMPSON & J. WQLFINGBR. I

PULVERIZBR. I APPLIOATIOR FILED snrr. a, 1902.

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No. 717,653. PATENTED'JAN. 6, 19os.

H. ARIENS, J. THOMPSON & J. WOLFINGER.

PULVERIZER.

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UNITED STATES Erich.

HENRY ARIENS AND JOHN THOMPSON, OF BRILLION, AND JOSEPH "WOLFINGER, OF DUNDAS, WISCONSIN.

PULVERIZERJ SEJEGIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,653, dated January 6, 1903. Application filed September 6, 19 02. derial No. 122.353 (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY ARIENs and JOHN THOMPSON, residents of Brillion, and JOSEPH WOLFINGER, a resident of Dundas, in the county of Calumet and State of Wisconsin, citizens of the United States,have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Pulverizers; and we'do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention consistsin certain pecularities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, the object of said invention'being to provide a simple, economical, and efficient soil-pulverizer and to combine the same with a seeder mechanism in preferably'detachable connection therewith.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of a preferred form of pulverizer having seeder mechanism in connection therewith; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, having parts thereof broken away and in horizontal section; and Fig. 3, a diagram illustratingpul- Referringby letterto thedrawings, A in-,

dicates each of a pair of side castings,'and B each of a pair of angle-iron beams bolted at their ends to upper corners of the castings. Each casting A has a forward arm provided with a socket b for a pivot-lug c of another side casting G, that extends in rear of the one aforesaid, and the two rearwardly-extending castings are connected by an angleiron beam D, bolted to their upper rear corners. The pivotal union of each casting O with a casting A is maintained by a bolt d, having a nut e run thereon, and the beam D has two right angles to one of each of the beams B, the rearwardly-extending portion of beam D serving as a step on which to bolt a brace E for a bar F, to which a seat G is bolted, this bar being coupled'by a link H to an eye f, projecting back from the rear one of beams 13, central of the same.

The castings A are provided with lower ap ertures in which bearing-boxes g are featherkeyed or otherwise secured against rotary movement, and loose in these boxes is a shaft I, on which a series of pulverizer-disks Jare held between clamps K, made fast to the shaft by set-screws h or other suitable means. Each pulverizer-disk is outwardly concaved in opposite directions from a central cutting edge, and said disk preferably consists of a pair of hollow sections bolted together, this variety of disks being common in the art of soil-pulverizers.

Bearing-boxes t' are feather-keyed or otherwise secured against rot-ary movement in apertures of the castings O, and loose in these boxes is a shaft L, on which a series of pulverizer-disks M are held between clamps N, rigidly secured to said shaft. The disks M are similar to the one J aforesaid, but of smaller diameter and arranged to centrally cut the ridges of soil formed by the same.

Bolted to the beams B or in otherwise preferably detachable connection with the same are legs 0, supporting a seeder-box P, and depending seed-spouts Q under the box are between the two series of pulvervizer-disks "above specified, each spout being alined with the cutting edge of a forward disk.

Fast on shaft I is a sprocket-wheel R, and a link-belt S connects this wheel with another but larger sprocket-wheel T, fast on a seed-feed shaft U in bearings depending from the box surmounting the pulverizer. The inner end of a draft-tongue V is bolted or otherwise made fast on the beams B, and stays 7' connect the tongue and forward one of said beams.

The Weight of the driver of the machine on seat G exerts a leverage that tends to compensate for the weight on the forward shaft I, and thus the machine is so balanced when in use that the larger forward disks will not out too deep, while at the same time the rear smaller disks are caused to ,cut deep'enough, owing to downward pressure on the pivotallyhung frame comprising the side casting O and beam D, by which said castings are connected.

In practice the forward disks J of the pulverizer form furrows into which seed is dropped from spouts Q, and the rear disks M operate to cover the seed in said furrows by centrally splitting the adjacent ridges and turning the soil to the right and left. However, it is practical and within the scope of our invention to omit the rear pulverizerdisks and employ other means for distributing the soil to cover the seed.

When it is not desirable to use the seeding mechanism, it can be readily detached from the pulverizer.

' Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A soil-pulverizer comprising forward beam-connected side castings, rearwardly-extending beam-connected side castings in pivotal connection with those aforesaid, shafts having their bearings in the castings, disks on the shafts, a seat-bar havingyielding union with a beam connecting forward castings, and a seat-bar brace joined to a beam connecting the rearwardly-extended castings.

2. A soil-pulverizer comprising forward beam-connected side castings, rearwardly-ex tending beam-connected side castings in pivotal connection with those aforesaid, shafts having their bearings in the castings, disks on the shafts, a link in union with a beam connecting the forward castings, a seat-bar connected to the link, and a seat-bar brace joined to a beam connecting the rearwardlyextended castings.

3. A soil-pulverizer comprising beam-connected side castings having forwardly-extending arms, rearWardly-extending beam-connected side castings in pivotal connect-ion with said arms of the former castings, front and rear shafts having their bearings in said castings, and disks on the shafts, the disks on the rear shaft being arranged to out between disks on the forward shaft.

4. A soil-pulverizer comprising forward beam-connected side castings each provided with a socket, rearwardly-extending beamconnected side castings provided with pivotlugs engaging the sockets aforesaid, means for maintaining the pivotal union of the side castings, shafts having their bearings in said castings, and disks on the shafts.

5. A soil-pulverizer comprising forward beam-connected side castings, rearwardly-extending beam-connected side castings in pivotal connection with ,those aforesaid, front and rear shafts having their bearings in the castings and disks on the shafts, the disks on the rear shaft being arranged to out between those on the forward shaft; a seedbox having legs in connection with the beams connecting the forward side castings of the pulverizer, and spouts depending from the box in rear of the forward disks with which they are alined.

6. A soilpulverizer comprising forward beam-connected side castings rearwardly-extending beam-connected side castings, in pivotal connection with those aforesaid, front and rear shafts having their bearings in the castings, disks on the shafts, the disks on the rear shaft being arranged to out between those on the forward shaft, a seat-bar in yielding union with a beam connecting the forward castings, and a seat-bar brace joined to a beam connecting the rear castings; a seedbox having legs in connection with the beams connecting said forward castings of the pulverizer, and spouts depending from the box in rear of the forward disks with which they are alined.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands, at Brillion, in the county of Calumet and State of WViscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY ARIENS. JOHN THOMPSON. JOSEPH WOLFINGER. Witnesses:

W. V. MOMULLEN, MARK P. OHLSEN. 

